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More than 200 United Methodist clergy in Illinois have pledged to flout church policy and bless unions for same-sex couples, putting their jobs, homes and callings in jeopardy if couples take advantage of their offer. Methodists in the Northern Illinois Conference also called on the global church to impose no more than a 24-hour suspension for clergy who defy the policy. Elders, deacons and pastors took their stand after civil unions in Illinois became legal this month. But they said their determination to support same-sex unions has been fueled further by a church trial last week in which a jury found a Wisconsin pastor guilty of performing a holy union for a lesbian couple, suspending...

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More than 200 United Methodist clergy in Illinois have pledged to flout church policy and bless unions for same-sex couples, putting their jobs, homes and callings in jeopardy if couples take advantage of their offer.Methodists in the Northern Illinois...

Nearly five years after the killing of a Rolling Meadows rapper, two of his friends took the stand Tuesday and described the day they saw their friend get shot.Marquis Lovings, 30, died Aug. 19, 2006, after two armed men came to his apartment in the...

A second suspect has been charged in the murder of a Chicago man who showed some friends envelopes filled with cash a few days before he was robbed and killed at his home in East Chatham, a Cook County prosecutor said today.Joshua Brown, 19, appeared in...

Several bricks were thrown through windows Saturday morning at a Christian school in Arlington Heights, hours before the school hosted a banquet organized by a group that describes itself as "dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist...

One man was killed and another wounded in a shooting near a Longwood Manor neighborhood park late Tuesday, police said.
The two were attacked near 97th and South Wallace streets just before 11 p.m. Wednesday, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer...

Twelve people were arrested during a Southeast Side drug bust that nettled more than $730,000 in narcotics, according to Chicago police.The disbanded drug market was purportedly controlled by members of the Gangster Disciple and Black P. Stone street...

Two people were killed this weekend in separate shooting and stabbing incidents in south suburban Harvey and Chicago Heights, officials said.The shooting occurred early Sunday in Harvey, though the exact address of the attack was not available.Corey...

A man was shot dead near a raucous outdoor holiday party in the South Shore neighborhood late Monday night, bringing the number of homicides to 10 during a warm and violent Memorial Day weekend.
More than 40 shootings were reported during the four-day...

A Mount Prospect man who police believe was not wearing a seatbelt died in a three-vehicle crash in Palatine this morning after he apparently ran a red light and his car was struck by a van, authorities said.Steve L. Banks, 32, of the 1100 block of...

Two people who were fatally shot Saturday afternoon in the city’s Austin neighborhood on the West Side have died, police said.The shooting happened about 12:47 p.m. on the 4900 block of West Washington Boulevard, said Police News Affairs Officer Laura...

At least one person died and three others, including a 15-year-old boy, were injured in three separate evening shootings across the city, Chicago police said.Daniel Green, 21, of the 7100 block of South Euclid Avenue, was the man killed, according to...

More than 135 cooking schools offer classes for home cooks to culinary professionals at venues across the city and suburbs. Some instructors will even come to your home to teach you and your friends the basics.
What's new? The College of DuPage is...

A woman has died after divers pulled her from a car submerged in a pond at Harper College in northwest suburban Palatine this afternoon.
The car was discovered about noon at 1200 W. Algonquin Road, near the Euclid Avenue side of the campus, said...

A woman pulled from a retention pond on the Harper College campus in Palatine died from drowning in an accident, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined today following an autopsy.
Victoria Auer, 64, of the 2400 block of Yarrow Road in...

Opponents of the new law that will allow same-sex civil unions rallied at the Thompson Center today demanding that Illinois voters be allowed to decide the fate of the issue through referendum.
Days before a measure that will give gay couples the same...

Fayrene "Faye" Treadwell, the former manager of the Drifters who won a longtime legal battle to stop promoters from infringing on the classic rhythm-and-blues vocal group's trademark name, has died. She was 84.
Treadwell, one of the first...

As a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, Richard Koch chose his life's work after reading one of the few books in the camp's meager library — the medical biography "The Doctors Mayo."
Liberated in 1945 after 13 months in...

A 78-year-old man was killed late Tuesday night after he left a Prospect Heights nursing home and was hit and killed by a vehicle nearby just after another car stopped to try to get him out of the street, officials said.
William H. Spears Jr., a resident...